Bishops Croft

Bishop's Croft is a late 18th-century building, likely constructed for Thomas Green, an iron master who lived from 1731 to 1803. The building was extended in 1902-1903 by A S Dixon, with plasterwork and leadwork by George Bankart and metalwork by the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft. It was acquired by the diocese of Birmingham in 1921. The structure is made of brick and stands three storeys tall with three bays. The ground floor features a central door set within an Adamish doorcase, flanked by two recessed sash windows and two modern vertical oval windows. Each of the first and second floors has three sash windows, with the second-floor windows being square. The building is topped with a dentilled eaves cornice and a blocking course. There are two-storey, three-bay wings on the left and right that connect to pedimented two-storey outer wings.